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                 "Asciified Self Portrait"
                            by
                      Michele Cerulli 

Pencil on canvas; acquired as BMP image using a scanner; 
converted into ascii format using Jave4. Digital version 
of the original available at 
http://www-studenti.dm.unipi.it/~cerulli/autoritratto.php
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  )@(    Me standin still
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 (O O)
( )@( )  Me screaming (see Munch)
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Michele in Canada May 2002